With his mom's salon on the brink of bankruptcy, a dedicated son rolls up his sleeves to help and discovers himself as the coolest barber on the block.
When numerous schools in São Paulo were slated to be closed in 2015 as a result of the worsening socio-political crisis, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings in an unprecedented act of self-empowerment. Filmmaker Eliza Capai shows the development of the many-voiced protests, using news excerpts, self-conducted interviews and recordings made with activists’ own cell phone cameras. From the first demonstrations in 2013 and continuing all the way to the election of the extreme right-wing presidential Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Capai’s highly political work becomes more and more relevant with each passing day.
OUR DREAM is the biobiography of Claudinho and Buchecha, the most successful duo of the national melody funk in all times and the greatest icon of the genre in Brazilian popular music. The story of a friendship that becomes a force of overcoming and conquest. A film that shows how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil. A real story full of fantasy. A musical feature, thrilling and entertaining, made of drama and tragedies, but also full of humor, surprises and redemption.
